![]() Cromwell's unique ascent climaxes in bathos rather than pathos. Adapting her own book, in harness with Ben Miles, the actor who plays Cromwell in all three plays, Mantel has grabbed those marvellous characters whom she’d rescued from historical cliché, cut them out in cardboard and pasted them flat down again on the boards of the stage. Literary and theatrical genius are not twins. It’s counterintuitive to use the word simplistic of Mantel, but she herself is to blame for this superficial historical-tragical-comical tone. But by now, the audience is well acquainted with Mantel’s luxuriously textured, dazzlingly nuanced and psychologically acute conjurings, and The Mirror and the Light feels different in all the wrong ways – less plastinated than eviscerated. ![]()
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